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San Diego - San Diego State University - Library - Head of Technical Services - Full Time (Tenure)

San Diego State University Library & Information Access
seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, proactive, innovative, and
service-oriented candidates for the position of Head of Technical
Services. The successful candidate will
be an enthusiastic, collegial, user-focused librarian who will be able to
provide leadership for technical services and represents the department’s
changing needs as we settle into a new consortial and local integrated library
management system.

This position will provide timely and strategic management
of resource description and metadata activities to support the research,
teaching, and learning needs of the university community. The incumbent will be responsible for the
overall management and staff supervision of the division, including
acquisitions, cataloging, physical processing, database and electronic resource
maintenance, and processing of government publications.

These units currently consist of 3 tenured librarians and 9
support staff. As a member of the
Library faculty, this position will be actively involved in library governance
activities and will provide expertise regarding innovations in information
organization, discovery, and access.

This position will be appointed at the rank of Associate
Librarian.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

Direct the bibliographic access to the library’s collection
of 7 million physical items and 1 million online resources.

Be responsible for planning, organizing, and managing
activities to meet evolving trends in information organization, discovery, and
access.

Supervise technical operations in the library, including
acquisition, processing and cataloging of all types of materials in any
language and any format.

Establish and evaluate existing policies and procedures, and
set priorities in cataloging and processing collaboratively with technical
services librarians; and in consultation with collection management, public
service librarians, and with library administration.

Keep abreast of current standards, emerging technologies
(such as Bibframe and linked data), and best practices, and implement as appropriate
to more effectively support the organization of and access to library
resources.

Collaborate with colleagues across the Library to support
growing metadata and digital collection initiatives.

Serve as cataloging technical adviser on the Library’s new
discovery tools.

Work with staff and faculty to insure the application of
high quality metadata standards and efficient workflow for the new
Institutional Repository (IR).

Develop assessment and benchmark strategies, maintain
statistics, and compile narrative and statistical reports to support short
& long-term planning for the department and Library.

Other duties as needed.

This is a full-time, twelve-month, tenure track faculty
position. Tenure is dependent upon continuing high standards in library service
effectiveness, professional growth and development, and service to the
University and community.

This position will be ranked at Associate Librarian. Salary
commensurate with experience.

Excellent benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
plans, as well as 24 vacation days per year.

Anticipated start date is August 2017

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

ALA-accredited master’s degree or equivalent foreign degree.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in original cataloging of
materials in a variety of formats.

Minimum of 3 years successful experience supervising a unit
of technical services paraprofessionals.

Successful database maintenance experience in a university
research library.

Demonstrated experience managing the workflow of one or more
of the following technical services units: digitization, metadata, monographic
cataloging, serials cataloging, or electronic resources.